The bright Sun dissects the airglow above Earth's horizon in this view photographed with a digital still camera from during the STS-107 mission.
To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the coastline of the world’s largest island.
In this image taken in 1985, four members of the Challenger STS-51L crew train on the flight deck of the shuttle crew compartment.
On Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204).
This colorized schlieren image is of a small-scale model of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing mission concepts to survive the planet's extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure.
The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 3318 are lazily draped across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spiral galaxy lies in the constellation Vela and is roughly 115 light-years away from Earth.
In this image from Jan. 9, 2022, NASA astronaut Kayla Barron peered out from a window inside the International Space Station's cupola.
Retired U.S. Air Force Honorary Brigadier General Charles McGee, left, spoke with NASA astronaut Alvin Drew in 2020.
This image shows the Highfield drill hole, on Vera Rubin Ridge in Gale crater on Mars, made by NASA’s Curiosity rover in its search for rock samples. Just recently, scientists announced that an analysis of rock samples collected by the rover were enriched in carbon 12, a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes.
This image, captured by the Landsat-8 satellite, shows the view over Western Australia on May 12, 2013.
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174.
Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak.
Legendary actor and diplomat, Sidney Poitier, visited JPL in 1979.
This image shows the James Webb Space Telescope atop its launch vehicle, but before it was encapsulated in the rocket fairing.
This image shows knots of cold, dense interstellar gas where new stars are forming.
2021 saw significant milestones achieved in the assembly of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft (QueSST), and all eyes now look forward to a pivotal 2022.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, launched aboard Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021.
